Repository. 49 Methods and Assigments for Writing Urban Places biedt een reeks methoden en opdrachten die bedoeld zijn om nieuwe benaderingen in architectuur, stedelijk onderzoek en andere gebieden van ruimtelijke ontwikkeling te stimuleren en uit te nodigen tot creatieve, actieve en speelse interventies in de materiële en immateriële dimensies van stedelijke omgevingen.

Dit Repository verzamelt 49 methoden – hier gedefinieerd als systematische procedures, technieken en handelwijzen – o...

An illustrated showcase for the Ibiza-based company specialising in all aspects of house construction and remodelling in the traditional Balearic island style.

More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerge...

In the Geomatics domain, a point cloud refers to a data set that records the coordinates and other attributes of a huge number of points. Conceptually, each of the attributes can be regarded as a dimension to represent a specific type of information, such as time and Level of Importance (LoI). Drastically increasing collection of high dimensional point clouds raises essential demand for smart and highly efficient data management solutions. However, effective tools are missing. File-based solu...

This thesis examines the energy performance of dwellings of Dutch non-profit housing associations towards a future sustainable housing stock. Improving the energy performance of dwellings aims to improve the quality of dwellings and therewith to lower the actual energy consumption. Lowering the actual energy consumption of dwellings contributes to the battle against climate change. This thesis addresses four studies. Study 1 assesses the energy performance progress of over two million dwellin...

Open House discusses the topic of temporary housing in architecture, art, design and humanitarian aid, featuring work by distinguished international architects and artists, such as Andrea Zittel, Gramazio Kohler Research, Jean Prouve, John Armleder, Kengo Kuma, Kerim Seiler etc. Text in English and French.

An illustrated celebration of architecture with bricks - the most traditional, inexpensive and flexible of building materials - in a series of recent modern projects.

Die 1969 von Aldo van Eyck erbaute Pastoor van Ars-Kirche in Den Haag ist einer der wenigen bedeutenden Kirchenbauten der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch beleuchtet die einzigartigen architektonischen und räumlichen Qualitäten des Gebäudes. Obwohl er selbst nicht katholisch war, bemühte sich Van Eyck um den Bau eines authentischen und zeitgemäßen katholischen Gotteshauses. Zu diesem Zweck griff er auf die ursprüngliche Typologie der frühchristlichen Basilika zurück,...